Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. — Grace Darling Copy Share Image
“When adding descriptions to your online listings or printed materials, lead with benefits and follow with features.” — James Dillehay Copy Share Image
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“When the truth is known, all descriptions cease, and silence alone remains. #Yoga Vasistha” — Abhishek Kumar Copy Share Image
Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
“When God reveals a secret to you, it becomes the job description of your entire life.” — Dr Paul Gitwaza Copy Share Image
I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written by travelers who have been… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“The sky was turning the color of a fresh bruise as we pulled into my grandfather's subdivision, a bewildering labyrinth of interlocking… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Even her beauty had sharp edges. Her long ebony hair was cut like a razor blade. Her face was strong and fine.But… — Laura Oliva Copy Share Image
It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Feral beauty tangled up and over every surface. Enormous vines and flourishing blooms swathed the area creating a shadowy, organic cathedral. A… — Jacqueline Patricks Copy Share Image
“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
“So here we are, in the family planning aisle with a cart full of sports drinks and our hands full of .… — Huntley Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were… — Ruben Blades Copy Share Image
I personally believe that I was... a previous life or something... a previous reincarnation, a bard of some sort, because most of… — Marc Bolan Copy Share Image
I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. ~ — Louis E. Boone Copy Share Image
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to… — Nancy Cartwright Copy Share Image
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You almost can't avoid having some version of the multiverse in your studies if you push deeply enough in the mathematical descriptions… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left. — Barton Seaver Copy Share Image
“Raven has always been nice, in the same way vanilla ice cream is nice but you’d rather have cookie dough.” — Jessica Goodman Copy Share Image
“Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
